Whilst we were in St Anton recently, we took the opportunity to take the drive over to Zurs and ski the Lech and Zurs area. If you’re staying in St Anton then you have several options to get there. You can drive and park in the free car parks next to the Trittkopfbahn cable car [...]

The White Ring (Der Weisse Ring) is definitely a great one day activity. It takes you in a circular route around the main areas of Lech sk area and it is this route that we took around the area. You can start from key points, all marked on the map, we started from Zurs. Here is an overview of The [...]

The new ski season starts in Alpe d’Huez on December 5th and they’ve been busy getting ready for it. There’s a brand new ski run called Les Ancolies, a blue run which links the arrival of the new Marmotte ski lift to the arrival of the first leg of the DMC. The Marmotte ski lifst [...]

Summer can be a very busy time at ski resorts as they get things ready for the new season. Here’s our second round up of some of the developments that have been taking place this Summer, we’ll be adding more as we hear about them…
Sugar bowl gets new chairlift for 2009/10: the new chairlift in [...]

So the snow on the other side of the World has been pretty epic this year if you listen to our southern hemisphere friends on Twitter. As I get the daily updates of how much is falling where, I started to think maybe I need to try a ski holiday over there one year. It might be getting [...]

La Plagne ski resort is across the valley from Les Arcs, in 2003 they were linked together by the Vanoise Express Cable Car. In 2007 / 2008 ski season unfortunately the cable car did not run due to emergency maintenance on the cable.
Best known as an intermediate destination, La Plagne ski resort and neighbouring Les Arcs actually [...]

If, like me, a few weeks here and there simply aren’t enough then why not do a ski season?! It will probably be the hardest work you’ll ever do (getting up every morning at 6.30am after partying all night) but you’ll have the best 5 months of your life!!
I spent a season working as a [...]